Schwarzenberg e.V./Neurotitan

Schwarzenberg e.V. / Gallery neurotitan Schwarzenberg e.V., a production site and gallery is dedicated to the promotion of young arts and cultural producers within a lively dialogue with the public. The non-profit's activities include the operation of the neurotitan gallery and the upkeep of inexpensive studios in Berlin Mitte. The 300m2 gallery areas offer artistic and cultural groups and collectives presentation areas that are low-threshold, sometimes free of charge in an almost entirely gentrified neighbourhood. Applications for exhibitions and projects for the following year are accepted twice annually. Decisive selection criteria are the horizontal group processes and concepts reflected in the applications, which correspond to the mission statements of the association: Critical examination of socio-cultural issues, inclusion and participation are put in the foreground - formats and artistic styles are secondary.

With the background of being a monument itself - the building is a listed building and initiatives based in the building are an institutional part of Berlin's historical and cultural heritage - is another focal point of the annual gallery program, which presents and promotes forms of "living" memory through interdisciplinary events and exhibitions. The purpose of the association and the lively diversity of the building also open up its social significance: in contrast to its neighbourhood, the Haus Schwarzenberg forms a counterpart to a gentrified Berlin Mitte and sets a clear accent in the socio-economic structural change of the Berlin cityscape for the preservation and strengthening of independent initiatives in the fields of art as well as cultural and political education.